Notes to Round and round with Hardy and James

* A note to the volume points out that Stevenson mistakenly dated the letter 1891, for which James gently corrected him, writing to "My dear distant Louis" that he envied "my time-deluded islander" for being "so luxuriously 'out'."

** I'm looking at you, Stieg Larsson.

*** All these seem right to me except Conrad. Am I forgetting scenes of humor in Conrad? Lord knows, I've not read nearly all his books, but what comes to mind is a grim determination verging on dourness. Am I missing something?

Notes to "This is not so much the first over, as a gentle limbering up," or, Embarking on the Lyttelton/Hart-Davis letters

*Wait--there are published notebooks of Hardy? Yes, yes, it turns out that there are. I'll be getting those.